Device for preserving eggs



' (No Model.)

'G. OONANT. DEVICE FOR PRESERVING EGGS.

No. 297,676 T UNITED STATES PATENT Grams.

GEORGE OONANT, OF MARSHFI ELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR PRESERVING EGGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,676, dated April 29, 1884.

. Application filed Octobcr 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: K

Be it known that I, Gnonen CONANT, of

Marshfield, in the county of Plymouth, State.

of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement on Egg-Preservers, of which the following is a description suffi ciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specifica tion, in which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective View representing my improved egg-preserver in use; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section taken through the center of the standards, and Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal section.

Likeletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to that. class of eggpreservers in which the eggs are preserved by mechanical in contradistinction to chemical means; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improve ment will be'readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawings, A represents the base or bed-piece of the machine, and B the uprights or standards. The standards are framed into the base, and connected at their upper ends by the cross-bar 0, each one being provided on its inner face with avertical longitudinal groove or slot, m.

Disposed in the lower part of the machine, between the standards, there is a cross-bar or fulcrum, D, and centrally arranged thereon is a rack, E, provided with downwardly-proj ecting pins 1),. to prevent it from sliding or moving out of position, but so arranged as to permit the rack to be freely tilted or rocked. This rack consists of the end pieces, H, connected by a series of rails or slats, J, the rails being beveled on their upper edges, as best seen in Fig. 2. The end pieces, H, are extended slightly. above the rails, to prevent the eggs from rolling from the rack when the rack is tilted.

Two racks, FG, constructed in substantially the same manner as the rack E, are arranged above said last-named rack, their side rails being provided with pins 50,. which project into the slots 1%, and rest upon pins d, passing -through the standards B, thereby centrally pivoting them and enabling them to be tilted or rocked in the same manner as the rack E. If preferred, all of the racks maybe provided with pins '0 and bars D, the ends of the bars entering the slots m, and being supported 011 the pins d, or in any other suitable manner. A wire, K, issecured to the end pieces, H, in such a manner as to connect all of the racks, thereby enabling them to be tilted or rocked on their supports conjointly or in unison. i It will be understood that the racks are not designed to be rotated or revolved, but simply tilted in either direction at a slight angle to the horizontal. \Vhen but one rack is used, the bedpiece A may serve as a stop to arrest the motion of the rack, or any other suitable stop may be employed. lVhen several racks are connected one above another, the means for connecting them will not only cause them to tilt in unison, but will also serve to arrest their motion and hold them at a proper angle of inclination. A vertically-arranged standard L, is also provided at either corner of the bed -piece to assist in keeping the racks in proper position.

In the use of my lmprovement, the preserver or machine is placed in a cold apartment adapted for the purpose and filled with eggs, the

eggs being placed so that they rest upon the contiguous beveled edges of the rails, with their axes at right angles to said rails, the rails being sufficiently near together to prevent the eggs from falling between them, and sufficiently far apart to admit of a circulation of 5' air. When the eggs are placed in the ma chine in the manner described, they will rest side by side, and be arranged in rows, as best seen in Figs. 1 and 3, the rows being slightly separated, and each of the eggs in any particu- IOO lar row in contact with the adjoining eggs in the same row. The rows of eggs do not extend the entire distance between the end pieces, H, of the racks, a space being left at one end of each row corresponding as nearly as possible with half the circumference of an ordinary hens egg, or, say, one and one-half inch, so that when the racks are tilted on their supports all of the eggs in each row will roll toward the lowest side of the rack, each egg performing a half revolution, thereby being turned completely upside down before the traverse of the eggs is stopped by the lower egg in the row coming into contact with the lower end piece of the rack, it being understood that the racks are to be tilted to turn the eggs once a day, or as often as may be required to properly preserve them.

It will be obvious that when one end of the racks is elevated, as described, and the eggs caused to roll to the opposite side of the maehine, the center of gravity in each rack will be thrown outside its center of motion, or between its pivotal support or fulcrum and its lowest end, thereby rendering it unnecessary to fasten the racks to keep them in a proper position after being tilted to turn the eggs.

I do not confine myself to connecting the racks by the wire K, as they may be connected by a rod or rods, or in any other convenient manner. Neither doll confine myself to the use of any special number of racks in a machine, or to beveling the edges of the rails J or to the use of the standards L, or to con structing the racks of any special size, or to pivoting the racks precisely as described, as

they may be supported and pivoted in such a manner as to be readily tilted by any suitable means for that purpose without departing from the spirit of my improvement.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is 1. The combination of a supporting-frame, a tilting rack pivoted thereto, provided with rails at right angles to the axis on which the rack oscillates, said rails being a proper distance apart for the support of hens eggs placed side by side between them, and means for arresting the rack at a slight incline to the horizontal in either direction to which it may be tilted, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the standards provided with vertical grooves and supportingpins crossing the grooves at different heights,

and oscillatory racks provided with pivotpins adapted to rest within said grooves on said supporting-pins, said racks having rails at right angles to their axes of oscillation a proper distance apart for the support of eggs placed side by side between them, substantially as described.

3. The improved egg-prescrver herein described, the same consisting of the base A, bar D, standards B, provided with the grooves 111, and pins d, rack E, provided with the pins 1;, racks F G, provided with the pins w, and the wire K, constructed, combined, and arranged to operate substantially as set forth. 7

GEORGE CON ANT. Witnesses:

C. A. SHAW, L. J. Vnrrn. 

